The captain connected with sub Danny Foster’s cross after 28 minutes to settle a hard-fought contest that saw Jason Taylor sent off in stoppage time for kicking out at Stuart Beavon.

Wycombe manager Gary Waddock said: “We asked the players to take care of the performance and I thought we showed a little bit of everything.

“In the first half we had spells where we were stroking the ball around and, in the second-half, we stood up to everything they threw at us. Rotherham are a big, strong side and a good one at that and we stood up to the physical side, so I’m delighted.

“Danny Foster hasn’t been in the team for a while, but he’s come in at left-back and he produces a cross like that for Gareth Ainsworth to stick in the back of the net.”

Rotherham boss Ronnie Moore said: “We defended well and our two centre-backs have done alright again. Obviously I’m disappointed, I think we can take some credit for what we have done in the vast majority of the game.

“We showed a lot of effort and commitment but what we haven’t done is get in behind them an awful lot and when we did get in the end product wasn’t there.

“Had it been there then we could well have won the day, although they did hit us on the counter-attack when we managed to get behind them.”

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